Jaap Spaanderman
conductor · pianist · cellist · musicologist · music educator
- October 17, 1896 · Gouda
- July 22, 1985 · Laren
- 88 years
About Jaap Spaanderman
Jaap Spaanderman was a conductor from Kingdom of the Netherlands. Born in 1896, Spaanderman died in 1985 at the age of 88 in Laren.
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60 Seconds Life Story
Jaap Spaanderman was a remarkably versatile Dutch musician who excelled as a pianist, cellist, and conductor.
Jaap Spaanderman
1896 – 1985
60 Seconds: Jaap Spaanderman's Life Story
A look at the life and career of Dutch conductor, pianist, and educator Jaap Spaanderman.
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Jaap Spaanderman was a remarkably versatile Dutch musician who excelled as a pianist, cellist, and conductor. Born in Gouda in 1896, he began his formal education under the guidance of Sarah Bosmans-Benedicts and Isaac Mossel. His exceptional talent was recognized early, leading him to win the Dutch Prize of Excellence twice at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. By his early twenties, his reputation had grown enough to take him on expansive concert tours through the Dutch East Indies. In 1932, he transitioned into his prominent role as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Arnhem. He dedicated his later career to education at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, mentoring influential musicians like Reinbert de Leeuw and Edo de Waart. Spaanderman passed away in Laren in 1985 at the age of eighty-eight.
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Full Biography
|Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan "Jaap" Spaanderman jr. (17 October 1896 in Gouda – 22 July 1985 in Laren) was a Dutch pianist, cellist, conductor and piano and conducting pedagogue.
Jaap Spaanderman jr. was the son of organist and conductor Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan Spaanderman sr. (1864–1943).
He studied cello with Isaac Mossel and piano with Sarah Bosmans-Benedicts. He received the Dutch Prize of Excellence twice, once as a cellist (in 1918) and once as a pianist (1920), both at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. He further studied conducting with Hagel in Berlin.
In his early twenties he made two concert tours through the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia. From 1922 he taught piano at the Conservatoire of the Society Amsterdam 'Muzieklyceum' (one of the predecessors of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam). In 1932 he was appointed as conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Arnhem. In 1949 he returned to his school in Amsterdam, now teaching piano and conducting.
Among the many students of Jaap Spaanderman are Bart Berman, Theo Bruins, Albert Brussee, Stanley Hoogland, Jan Marisse Huizing, Guus Janssen, Hans Kox, Reinbert de Leeuw, Lucas Vis, Hans Vonk and Edo de Waart.
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